Journal Article

What Matters in Population Health and How We Count It Among People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Havercamp, Susan M., Krahn, Gloria L.

2019

Overview

This issue, \"On Counting What Matters: Finding Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Population Health Data,\" presents an overview of health surveillance research for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the United States. Although public health now conducts surveillance of people with disabilities broadly defined and compares their health status with that of individuals without disabilities, there are many challenges in conducting health surveillance of people with IDD. Difficulties include how to define cases, how to find cases, and how to obtain accurate information (Krahn, Fox, Campbell, Ramon, & Jesien, 2010). This issue will present critical conceptual and methodological issues, including recent prevalence and population health analyses, along with proposals that can lead to more equitable health and improved health surveillance for people with IDD.

• Publisher: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subject: Accuracy / Adult / Adults / Advocacy / Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-US / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder / Autism / Civil rights / Data Collection / Developmental Disabilities / Disability / Disabled Persons / Drug abuse / Ethnicity / Health care / Health disparities / Health services / Health Status / Health surveillance / Health surveys / Humans / Incidence / Intellectual disabilities / Intellectual Disability / Justice / Medicaid / Mental health / National Surveys / Participation / Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US / People with disabilities / Population / Population Groups / Population Health / Population Surveillance - methods / Public Health / Race / Society / Surgeons General / Surveillance / United States